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Nagios XI 5.5.6 to 5.7.5 - ConfigWizards Authenticated Remote Code Exection

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Nagios XI 5.5.6 to 5.7.5 - ConfigWizards Authenticated Remote Code Exection

Disclosed
02/13/2021
Created
02/08/2023

Description

This module exploits CVE-2021-25296, CVE-2021-25297, and CVE-2021-25298, which are OS command injection vulnerabilities in the windowswmi, switch, and cloud-vm configuration wizards that allow an authenticated user to perform remote code execution on Nagios XI versions 5.5.6 to 5.7.5 as the apache user. Valid credentials for a Nagios XI user are required. This module has been successfully tested against official NagiosXI OVAs from 5.5.6-5.7.5.

Author(s)

  • Matthew Mathur

Platform

Linux,Unix

Architectures

x86, x64, cmd

Development

Module Options

To display the available options, load the module within the Metasploit console and run the commands 'show options' or 'show advanced':

msf > use exploit/linux/http/nagios_xi_configwizards_authenticated_rce
msf exploit(nagios_xi_configwizards_authenticated_rce) > show targets
    ...targets...
msf exploit(nagios_xi_configwizards_authenticated_rce) > set TARGET < target-id >
msf exploit(nagios_xi_configwizards_authenticated_rce) > show options
    ...show and set options...
msf exploit(nagios_xi_configwizards_authenticated_rce) > exploit

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